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What continent is known as the outback?
Australia.
What is the interior of the Australian continent called?
the outback
What continent has Outback on it?
The continent and country of Australia has a vast inland area colloquially known as 'The Outback". The outback is a generic term applied (very loosely) to anywhere in Australia which is more than 400 kms from the coast, except for in the west and through parts of South Australia where it applies to the semi-arid country extending right to the coast. Some of the outback is desert, some is semi-arid and some is where hundreds of thousands of head of sheep and cattle are run on huge stations.
What continent is known as the empty continent?
Depending on the context, he nickname of "the empty continent" is sometimes used to refer to Latin America. This is because, since its conquest by Europeans, Latin America has been characterised by an absence of a unique history and culture.
What do Australians call the remote countryside?
The "outback".
What is Austriallia nickname?
The outback
What continent is known as the outback?
Australia.
Which continent is outback located on?
Australasia.
What is the interior of the Australian continent called?
the outback
What and Europe and nickname?
Europe is a continent and doesn't have a nickname.
What is the nickname of eurpoe?
Assuming that you mean Europe, not eurpoe, there is no nickname. Europe is a continent and they don't usually have nicknames.
Which continent is called a continent and a country?
Australia. It is a country, continent, and an island. Nice, huh? Australia is also half desert. It contains the Great Sandy and the Great Victoria Deserts, and the Outback. Stay out of the Outback at night. You can stay at the restaurant Outback all night night long until they close, though.
What is a nickname for the African continent?
The Dark Continent
Which continent contains a large area of land known as The Outback?
Australia
What is Africa nicknamed?
Africa's nickname is the plateau continent
The only continent that is both a country and a continent known as the outback or the land down under is?
The description is obviously meant to refer to Austalia, the only country that occupies an entire continent. However, while Australia is often referred to as the land down under, the term "outback" is NOT an alternative name for it. The outback is a term for the vast, dry and remote inland areas.
How did the outback get its name?
The outback got its nickname from a newspaper article that was printed in 1869. The writer was referring to the rugged back country of Australia, and he called the furthest parts of the country the outback, a place beyond Wagga Wagga in New South Wales.
